I think this excellant quote puts into perspective my thoughts:

2004-07-09 18:53:51 ( time)


lala writes:

Most of the guys who complain of women participating in the sport do so for superficial reasons. It is not, in fact, the quality of the bouts that is the issue, as anyone whose seen female fights would know.

Their reasons against are simple and clear, if not bizarre and ominous:

For them, and many like them, the word woman is equated with sex. Be it sex appeal, motherhood, 'loving', etc, it can all be pigeonholed into that one slot. The 'caring' guise, that women are not made for a brutal sport, is the same culture of repression and morality that saw other human beings as inferior and less than human (i.e. leading to slavery, racism, genocide). To see a woman who is able to access her aggression and channel it into skills that are brutal and effective is, on some unconscious level, a challenge to the submissive roles they believe women are in. It's a societal thing. 'Women are meant for loving' not fighting. But anyone who has seen an two-year-old little girl (raised in a family that does not hit, smack and rarely shouts)angrily lash out and scratch the everliving sh*t out of her sibling knows that aggression and the urge to fight is in us all. Many men don't mind women training, but draw the line at ring competition: Don't get UGly! As if! It's okay for men to get ugly? Fighting, in their minds, means injury and disfigurement to the sexual appeal of a woman. This is valued above and beyond the benefits of fighting: self-esteem, discipline, stress relief, glory, money, etc (the reasons you all fight). The nobler aspects of our human character are subsumed and relegated to lower status under the almighty sex appeal.



Look at it this way.

In a pack of Lions, the female does all the killing. However if a lion or lioness or cub from another pack comes into the territory, is it the Male or the female lion that fights them or chases them away. It is the male.

Call me sexist or whatever, but the reason that males fight instincevly, is to protect the females that we are close to.

Some males, like me, would even fight to protect females that we dont even know!!!

SO i dont think women should fight women, it just isnt right in my view!!!